It’s time for another weekly summary of Sedo’s domain sales. This week features Riva.com selling for 200,000 USD, Crab.com closing at 92,000 USD, and Casas.net reaching 87,000 EUR. But there’s much more after the jump!

Domain name
Price
Currency
Translation

.COMs

riva.com
200,000
USD

crab.com
92,000
USD

z7.com
35,000
USD

autodriver.com
20,100
USD

clickfree.com
20,000
USD

rid.com
16,000
USD

mobilecomputing.com
16,000
USD

ese.com
13,501
USD

donors.com
13,345
USD

gey.com
10,100
USD

o6.com
10,001
USD

approach.com
9,999
USD

salespeople.com
9,900
USD

zut.com
8,600
EUR

foothills.com
8,150
USD

mynewsbar.com
8,000
USD

mypokerblog.com
5,000
USD

staffordloans.com
5,000
USD

gxx.com
4,802
EUR

anyad.com
4,600
USD

letsfixdinner.com
4,500
USD

3min.com
4,500
EUR

japanunix.com
4,350
USD

rubico.com
4,000
USD

golfview.com
3,891
USD

breathtaking.com
3,888
USD

gopinoy.com
3,650
USD

jovencitasnaturales.com
3,600
EUR
Natural girls in Spanish

mortgageworkout.com
3,500
USD

nofos.com
3,500
USD

uniteddomain.com
3,400
USD

zqr.com
3,100
EUR

loramyc.com
3,000
EUR

homesend.com
3,000
GBP

GOTUGO.com
3,000
USD

sportsalive.com
3,000
USD

holy-quran.com
3,000
USD

only-you.com
2,916
USD

rensen.com
2,800
EUR

acrobatic.com
2,800
USD

tobogan.com
2,600
EUR

warmemorials.com
2,542
USD

momobi.com
2,500
USD

wconcept.com
2,500
USD

ihealthcheck.com
2,500
USD

swebank.com
2,500
EUR

ittips.com
2,500
USD

buste.com
2,500
EUR

reliances.com
2,500
USD

icooks.com
2,500
USD

animalmate.com
2,380
EUR

irefining.com
2,250
USD

clickbroker.com
2,230
USD

voxcall.com
2,200
USD

justinehenin.com
2,100
EUR

inkme.com
2,100
USD

hunted.com
2,050
USD

genomescreen.com
2,025
USD

aquashape.com
2,020
USD

vierges.com
2,000
EUR
“virgins” in French

sofashion.com
2,000
EUR

autoauct.com
2,000
USD

perkinsloan.com
2,000
USD

ccTLDs

schauspiel.de
20,000
EUR
“Play/Show” in German

weihnachtsgeschenke.de
15,000
EUR
“Christmas gifts” in German

onlive.fr
11,000
EUR

caiman.co.uk
8,000
GBP

babyplein.nl
7,500
EUR
Baby square in Dutch

hochzeitsfotos.de
5,500
EUR
“Wedding photos” […]

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OpenSRS has announced that their Expired Domains Program will be ending on January 6, 2009, due to a decrease in ad revenues and an increase in the cost and complexity of the program.
Once the program ends, the following changes will be implemented immediately:

Customized headers on expired domains will remain active but will no longer be […]

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After some questionable sales reporting last week, Sedo has implemented an updated reporting tool for completed domain sales in their marketplace. This, along with a recent GreatDomains‘ auction, has led to a much larger list than usual that includes a handfull of domains that should have been recorded earlier.
All domains with an asterisk “*” were […]

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Joichi Ito, the CEO of Creative Commons and a close friend of Elliot Noss, has been appointed to the Board of Directors at Tucows.
“We are honoured to have one of the most influential leaders in the global Internet community join our Board,” said Noss, the President and CEO of Tucows. “Mr. Ito brings to Tucows […]

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According to Scotsman.com, there is a strong backing for Scotland to create a domain extension that is separate from the rest of the United Kingdom.
In March of this year the TimesOnline reported that Alex Salmond, the First Minister of Scotland, lodged a formal request to change the country’s website addresses to .sco. Now, nine months […]

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Frank Schilling’s  Name Administration Inc. was able to defend it’s right of ownership for the domains Joystick.com and PCJeux.com after a French company filed a dispute through the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Although the panel concluded that the complainant failed to establish that the disputed domain names were registered and being used in bad […]

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DOMAINfest Global is just around the corner and Moniker is reviewing all the submitted domains for the industry’s largest live and extended domain auctions. Some of the early contenders to be featured in the official catalog include:

Nachos.com
UnderGarments.com
ParentalControl.com
ScienceFiction.com
TheatreTickets.net
Loans.net
Erotica.com
Wife.com
Foreclosure.net
Husband.com
Breed.com
FreeCreditReports.net
Automobiles.info
Construction.info
Lenders.org
ZQ.com
Bachelor.com
Admired.com
DietarySupplements.com
Warranty.net
Relative.com
Introduction.com
SnowStorm.com
Shock.com
Funding.com
KosherFood.com
RealTimeQuotes.com
Physicians.info
Bureau.com
Admire.me
Undress.me
FourWheeling.com
SEO.mobi
Evaluated.com
Zimbabwe.com
Kathy.com
GourmetFoods.com
BlogPosts.com

In addition to these premium domains, Moniker will also be offering five exclusive .ME domains. This is the first […]

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Sedo’s weekly sales list was highlighted by kredit.de selling for 892,500 Euros (1.13M USD). This same sale was reported on DNN nearly one month ago along with amarillo.mobi and tse.mobi, which were both listed on the weekly sales ending November 10.
Other impressive sales this week include sc.com closing at 300,000 USD, healthcaresolutions.com reaching 55,000 USD, […]

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The domaining message boards have been buzzing ever since a purported domain thief created a website to offer his long list of stolen domains for sale.  The purported thief, sometimes referred to as Omid J, has been tracked down by other domainers in the past but he hasn’t typically been as brazen to create a […]

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The Wall Street Journal recently published a story by Carl Bialik discussing the growing popularity of numeric domains and why they are increasing in value.
According to Bialik, the future is bright for numeric domains for several reasons:

No need for translation between countries…
Some numbers, such as 360, have global meaning…
Radio stations could make use of names […]

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